Summary of Patrick Radden Keefe's The Snakehead

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On a moonless Sunday morning in June 1993, a single police car drove east along the central road of the Rockaway Peninsula. At the western tip, the officers saw a ship dangerously close to shore. They heard the first screams from out across the water.
#2 Somma and Divivier were on the beach with the four Asian men, who were hysterical and pointing in the direction of the ship. They heard more screams from the ocean.
#3 Wells radioed his station and requested more help. The tide was coming in, and a strong westerly crosscurrent was pulling the people in the water down along the shoreline. The officers ventured into the water and pulled people from the shallows, dragging them onto the shore.
#4 As the first responders in New York and New Jersey began to hear about the ship, the Golden Venture, which was packed with what appeared to be illegal aliens who could not swim, began to drift towards the Atlantic Coast.

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• Organized Crime

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 21 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669356776
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Patrick Radden Keefe's The Snakehead
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On a moonless Sunday morning in June 1993, a single police car drove east along the central road of the Rockaway Peninsula. At the western tip, the officers saw a ship dangerously close to shore. They heard the first screams from out across the water.

#2

Somma and Divivier were on the beach with the four Asian men, who were hysterical and pointing in the direction of the ship. They heard more screams from the ocean.

#3

Wells radioed his station and requested more help. The tide was coming in, and a strong westerly crosscurrent was pulling the people in the water down along the shoreline. The officers ventured into the water and pulled people from the shallows, dragging them onto the shore.

#4

As the first responders in New York and New Jersey began to hear about the ship, the Golden Venture, which was packed with what appeared to be illegal aliens who could not swim, began to drift towards the Atlantic Coast.

#5

The Coast Guard tried to approach the ship, but the surf was too rough, so they ended up having to pick up the passengers from the smaller boat.

#6

After the rescue swimmers dropped off the injured Coast Guard man on the beach, they picked up two of the Golden Venture passengers who had reached the shore and gone into cardiac arrest. It was the first time Mundy had seen any of the passengers up close. They were all angles, bones and ribs, not a finger’s worth of body fat between them.

#7

The people on the boat were Chinese, but the ship looked like a fishing boat or a short-haul freighter. It couldn’t have come all the way from China, and transported so many people. The INS was trying to separate the passengers from the crew, but communication was difficult.

#8

After the shipwreck, Dougie was assigned to help the survivors get asylum in America. He was surprised by the kindness of American police, who were much nicer than Chinese police.

#9

The Golden Venture had washed ashore, and as the sun rose, the smell of human feces wafted through the air. The deck was littered with shit, and the hold was filled with belongings. The captain, Amir Humanthal Lumban Tobing, was taken to an office and questioned.

#10

The passengers were reclassified. They were no longer shipwrecked refugees, but invaders. The whole thing was unfolding in real time on national television.

#11

The only Chinese who remained on the beach were the dead. The bodies of eight people who had cardiac arrest were sent to hospitals, and three more who had drowned were found and sent to hospitals.

#12

Snakeheads are immigration brokers who charge steep fees to smuggle people out of China and into other countries. They have become well-known in Chinese communities around the world.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Chinese were the first ethnic group to come to America for gold, and their descendants still live outside of China. They are known as the largest diaspora on the planet.

#2

When the Civil War ended, some southern newspapers began editorializing that one way to compensate for the emancipation of black slaves was to shift agricultural work to imported coolies from China.

#3

The Chinese were the first major group of immigrants to arrive in America after the Civil War. However, they were also the first group to be scapegoated for the country’s economic problems.

#4

The Chinese in America were the first to be affected by the country’s economic needs, when they were recruited in the 1850s, and were the last to be affected by the country’s economic needs, when they were excluded in the 1950s.

#5

During her formative years, Sister Ping witnessed a procession of misguided policy initiatives from Beijing. She learned to work hard, as the two people who were lazy and sat back while others worked ended up dead.

#6

Sister Ping’s attitude towards authority was probably developed at an early age. When she was a teenager and attending the local high school, it was announced that the school was closing. Students turned on their elders, branding them reactionaries, class traitors, and capitalists.

#7

Mao had always been suspicious of Fujian, a small coastal province that was far from Beijing’s influence. It had always been a center of trade and exploration, and its people had developed an adventurous, somewhat maverick sensibility.

#8

The Fujianese are a unique type of population displacement, in which a group of villages seemingly relocates to another country within a short period of time. The people were fiercely independent by nature, and they often succeeded in their endeavors.

#9

Sister Ping’s father, Cheng Chai Leung, was one of the first Fujianese immigrants to arrive in America. He left the family when she was fifteen, and stayed in America for thirteen years. He was eventually deported back to China.

#10

The snakehead trade grew in Fujian Province, China, during the 1980s and 1990s, as Mao died in 1976 and Deng Xiaoping began opening up China somewhat to the outside world.

#11

Economic development in China sometimes causes people to leave rather than stay put.